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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ACCENTORIN^,. 95
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THE ALPINE ACCENTOR. Accentor collAris (Scopoli). As might be expected, this mountain-loving species is only an exceptional visitor to England. Its first recorded occurrence was at Cambridge, where two of these birds were noticed climbing about the buildings or feeding on the grass-plots in King's College, one of them being shot on November 22nd 1822; previously, however, an example had been obtained near Walthamstow, Essex, by Mr. PampHn, in August 1817. Subsequently several birds have been taken—or their occurrence recorded by competent observers: one near Lowestoft, Suffolk; one at Wells, Somerset; four in South Devon ; one near Cheltenham; one near Scarborough; two near Lewes, Sussex; and one on the Llanberis side of Snowdon, on August 20th 1870. The last bird was exceedingly tame, hopping about a small stone-enclosure, where I watched it as long as I could without attracting attention. As a wanderer the Alpine Accentor has occurred in Heligoland, Northern Germany, Belgium, and the north of France, especially Normandy; while along the cliffs of the Loire it is to be found with tolerable regularity in autumn (Bureau). Its home is, however, in the mountains of Savoy and the ranges which, under various names, stretch from the Alps to the Carpathians inclusive; the Apennines; Sicily; Sardinia ; the Pyrenees and their Cantabrian continuation ; the Guadarrama and other Spanish ranges down to the Sierra Nevada; Greece; Asia Minor; the Caucasus, and Northern Persia. Eastward, the distribution of this bird can with difficulty be traced,

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